An employee allegedly stabbed his boss during a staff meeting and it is being investigated as a possible copycat attack of the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing. Nathan Mahoney, 32, is accused of slashing the president of Anderson Express Inc as the manufacturing company held a meeting at their office in Muskegon, Michigan, on Tuesday morning, according to the Fruitport Township Police Department.
Mahoney allegedly stabbed Erik Denslow with a knife around 9.20am and fled the premises in his vehicle. Cops arrested him 15 minutes later. Denslow underwent surgery and was in serious but stable condition. The motive of the attack was not immediately known.
But Deputy Chief Greg Poulson said they have not ruled out the crime was potentially imitating the alleged actions of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson’s accused killer, Luigi Mangione. ‘I think that comes to everyone’s mind in this time,’ Poulson told News 8.
![[Luigi Mangione mug from Huntingdon SCI Luigi Mangione, 26, poses for his latest mugshot after being charged with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. Mangione has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the shooting in Pennsylvania. Pictured: Luigi Mangioni]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_232710720-e3bd.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=237)
‘We’re going through all his social accounts, all his electronic media and trying to determine a motive for this act.’. Mahoney’s co-workers described him as ‘having a quiet demeanor’, according to the police department. He was arraigned on Wednesday and has been charged with assault with intent to murder as well as fleeing and eluding a cop.
Denslow was stabbed hours before Mangione, 26, was hit with an 11-count indictment charging him with killing Thompson, 50. Thompson was shot dead while heading to his company’s annual investors’ conference at a Midtown Manhattan hotel on December 4.
